Senior Engineer - Business Engineering

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Key Information

Job title: Senior Engineer – Business Engineering

Salary: Circa £66,000                                         

Grade: Band 3

Contract type: TfL, Permanent                              

Reference: SF2972

Contract details: Full time                         

Location: Stratford, Endeavour Square/ Southwark, Palestra

Application closing date: Monday 15th December @ 23:59

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4 week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements. 

Overview

Business Engineers are responsible for identifying, evaluating, and developing engineering-context initiatives with the potential to deliver benefits across TfL; we also support the implementation of change and realisation of these benefits. We lead and deliver multidisciplinary projects, across product lifecycles, from ideation and business case, through to the operate and maintain phases. This includes understanding stakeholder needs, the business case, mitigating risks, establishing feasibility, developing prototype solutions, and setting technical requirements for delivering well defined business outcomes.

We are a team who sit across disciplines, leveraging our own knowledge and the technical expertise from colleagues & partnerships while maintaining a bird’s eye view of how the solution integrates with the business.  

Recent assignments within Business Engineering include ongoing work with engineering and maintenance teams to identify and implement cost saving initiatives, designing frameworks for Asset Strategy to inform long term financial plans, and providing technical support to the Net Zero matrix team to launch major environmental and commercial projects. 

What we are looking for

Our team are curious, willing to question assumptions, with an inherent drive for positive change. We need to deal with large numbers of stakeholders and utilise these relationships. Our people are logical and able to pull information and expertise together to produce innovative solutions, with the problem-solving mindset needed to see this through. Our team has a combination of attributes: technical ability including ‘systems’ integration, coordinating and overseeing output of multi-disciplinary teams, facilitating continuous improvement, taking ownership of projects and deliverables, delivering and embedding change.

Skills 

• Commercial awareness, understanding of business cases, whole life costing fundamentals and procurement strategies to deliver optimal outcomes. (Essential)

• Ability to think strategically – making connections across the organisation, communicating with, and developing these connections and stakeholders to scope, structure and deliver projects to agreed cost, time and resources. (Essential)

• Ability to identify and evaluate options where there is uncertainty, aligned to Business objectives, TfL’s corporate goals/vision and the Mayors Transport Strategy (or equivalent contexts). 

Knowledge 

• Deep understanding of the challenges of introducing new assets, technology or changes in business practice into complex, safety critical business environments and the necessary trade-off between cost, time and quality. (Essential)
• Detailed knowledge of one, or several of the professional / technical disciplines deployed in transport and how they can be brought together appropriately in projects and programmes to solve client problems. (Essential)
• Strong understanding of the delivery of projects at an early stage including a thorough knowledge of one or more of the following specialisms: Business case development, whole life costing, securing sources of funding.
• Good understanding of project management skills needed to manage tasks, document, and embed change. Good understanding of the principles of risk management and value engineering.

Experience 

• Experience managing small multi-disciplinary teams or applying engineering practices to resolve low to medium complexity technical challenges. 

• Experience of building relationships with and influencing a wide range of stakeholders at all levels within and outside the organisation. 
• Experience of early-stage project delivery, problem definition, concept development, option identification, engineering analysis techniques and business case development. (Essential)
• Experience of initiating and delivering business change. Measuring and realising benefit. (Essential)

Application Process 

Please apply using your CV and answering the screening questions.

PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images 

Please note due to the holiday period you may not receive feedback on your application until the New Year.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. 
 
Benefits

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow.  Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:
 

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel 

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.